I’ve been consumed by Lou Reed’s The Blue Mask of late and finally made time for the 1983 live document A Night With Lou Reed. The DVD finds Reed live in an intimate setting (The Bottom Line) in his native NYC, sparsely backed by guitarist Robert Quine, Fernando Saunders on bass and Fred Maher on [...]
Sgt Dunbar’s Hobo Banned may be a collective form Albany, NY but their sound is more akin to the strange bouillabaisse that’s been brewing in the New Orleans Bywater neighborhood of late: 2 parts continental gypsy, 1 part Balkan folk, a pinch of Swordfishtrombones, with a healthy dash of On Avery Island. Over the past [...]
Heads up, L.A.: Friday night, October 23rd, Aquarium Drunkard presents Kurt Vile with White Arrows and Under The Asbury at Spaceland. Vile’s new album, Childish Prodigy, is the jam — go see his shtick live. We are giving away several pairs of tickets to AD readers. Hit us up in the comments with your name [...]
Not just another compilation. Tropicália, or Tropicalismo, was at once a response to military dictatorship and an attempt to expand Brazilian music by infusing ideas from all parts of the globe, even so far as an attempt to create a ‘universal music.’ This monumental compilation is the work of a like minded collective – radicals [...]
Heads up: Aquarium Drunkard will be in New York next week during CMJ – we’re having an informal, unofficial, day party Thursday (October 22nd) on the lower east side at Fontana’s. It is free. 7 bands from both coasts and in between. I can promise you now that you won’t be able to catch a [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 114: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Caribou – Melody Day ++ The Walkmen – We’ve Been [...]
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years? Here at AD, [...]
Our friends at Daytrotter are quite the prolific bunch — to the point I can’t possibly keep up with everything they are doing in real time. But I do make a point to go back and catch up on the sessions I’ve missed. Most recently this included the two separate sessions the Walkmen cut while [...]
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years? Here at AD, [...]
Do you watch Gossip Girl? Me neither, but apparently Sonic Youth do and made a guest appearance on the show last night (you can check out the cameo via Videogum, here). In short, the band play a wedding reception – specifically an acoustic version of “Star Power” (originally off Evol) which you can download for [...]
